If you are a regular user of our collection database you might have noticed some very minor tweaks recently. One of the most obvious is a change to how we show object images. For objects with small and low-quality images we’ve turned off zooming (example). Instead these images now explain why they are not available [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Imaging'
Augmented reality and the Powerhouse images in the Commons (or interesting things clever people do with your data #7215)
October 6th, 2009 1 Comment
On Saturday night at our (very rainy) Common Ground meetup in Sydney, Rob Manson and Alex Young from BuildAR demonstrated the first version of their augmented reality mobile toolkit using images from the Powerhouse’s geocoded photographs in the Commons on Flickr. This work riffs around the early mashup from Paul Hagon where he combined the [...]
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Common Ground – The Global Flickr Commons Meetup October 2 & 3
September 3rd, 2009 Comments Off
Common Ground – The Global Flickr Commons Meetup October 2 & 3 On October 2 & 3, depending on where you are in the world a group of institutions who have put photographs into the Commons on Flickr are having a ‘meet up’. The Powerhouse is hosting the Sydney one on Saturday October 3, 630-9pm. [...]
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Digital graffiti or derivative art? Notes on a skeleton
July 13th, 2009 1 Comment
A pretty innocuous and humorous image from our Phillips Collection in the Commons on Flickr with a lot of views – nearly 33,000. A quick mouseover reveals this hodge podge of notes. Is this graffiti? Should they be removed? Would removal just be ‘feeding the trolls‘? Are they doing it for the lulz? Or is [...]
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One year in the Commons on Flickr – statistics and . . . a book!
April 8th, 2009 4 Comments
Today we celebrate one year in the Commons on Flickr. Since April 8 last year we’ve uploaded 1,171 photos (382 geotagged) from four different archival photographic collections. These have been viewed 777,466 times! For photographs that had been either hidden away on our website (the original 270 Tyrrell photographs on our website were viewed around [...]
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Sydney Observatory and astrometry bots
February 22nd, 2009 1 Comment
Over at the Sydney Observatory blog you can read about our astronomy curator’s experiments with the ‘astrotagging bot’ behind the Astrometry project and group on Flickr. Today 20 February 2009 (Sydney time) the above image and five others were posted on the image sharing website Flickr here. Within a few minutes astrometry.net found the image [...]
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A new collection in the Commons – Clyde Engineering
September 2nd, 2008 Comments Off
We’ve just added the start of a new collection of photographs to the Commons on Flickr. The Clyde Engineering Photograph collection is full of photographs of heavy machinery. We’ve uploaded the first 50 to give you a feeling for what will be coming in future weeks. The glass plate negatives in the Clyde photograph collection [...]
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Flickr meets Google Street View – Paul Hagon’s Then & Now (or interesting things clever people do with your data #6247)
August 27th, 2008 6 Comments
A week or so ago Paul Hagon got in touch with me to say he’d done something really cool with our geo-coded historical images in the Commons on Flickr. In what he describes as “about 30 minutes of coding” he had taken a KML feed from our Tyrrell photos in the Commons on Flickr and [...]
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A Commons Slideshow
August 27th, 2008 2 Comments
Flickr has recently enabled the embedding of slideshows which means doing something like this is now really really easy. And you can even go full screen.
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